peaceful and picturesque scene crossword clue

Sylvan idyll at nightfall, still-life with deranged dot-com refugee and brown office furniture. Idylls of the King is a fairly typical Victorian bowdlerization that accepted the prevailing attitude of the time that Le Morte darthur was little more than 'bold bawdry and open manslaughter'. On it I composed an idyll which I cannot read, even now, without feeling tears in my eyes. Maryville Anxious to preserve the mood of their brief idyll, John Wood had put off telling Maria about the bees in Maryville. The betrothal had been, so to speak, an outdoor idyll, but the cold season and married life make of Masha a stay-at-home, without a responsibility of her own, since the household runs like a clock under the strict supervision of her mother-in-law. Fairly obvious which one of us is the honor student.Entertaining feelings of gratitude for my kind host, and disposed to listen attentively to his poem, I dismissed all sadness, and I paid his poetry such compliments that he was delighted, and, finding me much more talented than he had judged me to be at first, he insisted upon treating me to a reading of his idylls, and I had to swallow them, bearing the infliction cheerfully. OTS/SSE is a simple fix to make it less error-prone, but there are other non-gluey solutions available, given some light massaging.Īll in all, a fun Monday idea that didn't quite hold up to the previous incarnation, with a couple of trouble spots.ĪDDED NOTE: Jim Horne pointed out that it's the 'honor roll,' not a 'class roll,' so HONOR STUDENT is appropriate. I'd have asked for revisions on the first two, since they're too easy for a newb solver to get wrong. These have huge potential to turn off newer solvers and/or deprive them of their victory door die punch. Not worth the tricky crossings of OTT/TSE, ARAL/RIA, and OON and INE, though. Using anything but a rubber band for those would just be gauche.įun bonuses in DOOR DIE (speaking of mobsters), REC ROOM, ARMORED, CAROUSEL, ORBITERS. I kept getting stuck on the idea of a literal roll of cash, like the ones mobsters carry around. MONEY CLIP? I had to look up the dictionary definition to remind myself that 'roll' can be slang for a wad of money.ALUMINUM FOIL's roll is more literal, wrapped around a cardboard roll.HONOR STUDENT is on a class roll, but why an honor student? Aren't all students on a class roll?.It makes you think, giving a nice click when you come up with the idea of a dinner roll. Today's concept works, although it wasn't as sharp as I would have liked. It reminded me of another puzzle that generated an a-ha so memorable that I still remember it six years later. MARGARINE … HONOR STUDENT … ALUMINUM FOIL … I'll take 'Things that can be found ON A ROLL,' Alex. My game nights have been sparsely attended these days. I've taken to making up my own cards containing the most tenuous of bonds, and when they stump people, I eat the card and walk away in maniacal laughter. I can often figure it out, and if I can't, there's a head-slapping moment when I realize that I should have. This is one of my favorite tried-and-true theme types, reminding me of the game 'Tribond,' where you're given three seemingly disparate things and have to find the connection.

Peaceful and picturesque scene crossword clue